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The past endures inside the present in Powell and Pressburger’s spiritual masterpiece A Canterbury Tale, filmed during wartime in the Kent countryside. We went on a pilgrimage to the film’s locations.
Our celebration of the groundbreaking filmmaking duo will take place from 16 October to 31 December 2023 and include a major BFI Southbank season, UK-wide cinema rereleases and more.
Sea, sunsets and shimmering moonlight are shown in early Technicolor in Western Approaches. As this war-at-sea docudrama arrives on Blu-ray, we look back on the heyday of Technicolor filmmaking in Britain.